About

Dr. Michael Curry, Esq. is President & CEO of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, which represents 50 health centers, serving over one million patients out of over 285 practice sites. He has been one of the Boston Business Journal Power 50 Movement Makers since 2022, one of Boston Magazine’s 150 Most Influential Bostonians since 2023, and a Bostonian of the Year in 2021 (along with his member health centers) by The Boston Globe and Boston Magazine. He was also recently inducted into the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce’s Academy of Distinguished Bostonians (2025) and recognized as one of the 57 Most Influential Black Attorneys in the Northeast by the New England Black Law Students Association.

During the early battle with the COVID-19 pandemic, Michael was appointed by the Massachusetts Senate to the legislatively created Health Equity Task Force, which he co-chaired, aimed at addressing the health disparities that have been realized and magnified by COVID-19. He was also appointed by then Governor Charlie Baker to the COVID-19 Vaccine Working Group and served on the Department of Public Health’s Health Equity Advisory Group, the City of Boston’s Health Inequity Task Force, and the City of Brockton’s Social Justice Task Force. He gained a reputation for always being the equity voice in the room. The experiences led him to co-found the Health Equity Compact (HEC), a collection of over 80 c-suite leaders of color aimed at driving health equity reform in Massachusetts. In just three years, the HEC filed the first in the nation omnibus health equity reform bill, hosted the state’s first of its kind Health Equity Trends Summit, worked with the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation to publish a Cost of Inequity report (making the business case), and partnered with MassINC. to capture and publish a poll on the topic.

He brings over 30 years of experience and results in civil rights advocacy, health reform and health equity. He is the Immediate Past President of the Boston Branch of the NAACP (2011-2016) with over 25 years of dedicated service to the NAACP on the city, state-area conference and national levels. He was elected to the NAACP Board of Directors in 2014, 2017, 2020 and reelected in 2023 by members from across the country. He serves on the National NAACP’s Executive Committee, and as the appointed Chair of the National Board’s Advocacy & Policy Committee since 2019, Chair of the Constitution and Bylaws Sub-Committee, and Vice-Chair the Political Action and Legislation Committee. He has served as Administrator for the Maryland State Conference and the New England Area Conference of the NAACP (overseeing the state-area conference and all branches in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Vermont).

Attorney Curry is also an Adjunct Professor at both New England Law Boston teaching “Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Profession” and Suffolk University’s Moakley Center and Sawyer School of Management teaching a health care management and policy course.

Michael has received numerous local and national awards for leadership and advocacy and is frequently requested as a keynote speaker and panelist on a wide range of civil rights and health policy issues. His Quantum Leap presentation, which addresses the history of anti-Black racism in America from 1619 to today, is frequently requested.

Dr. Curry earned a Bachelor of Arts from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from New England School of Law and later graduated from the inaugural class of the Executive Leadership Council’s Pipeline to Leadership Program. He holds an Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration from Curry College, an Honorary Doctorate in Healthcare Administration from Labouré College, an Honorary Doctorate from Williams James College and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He is also a frequently requested commencement speaker.